People are blasting a Canadian shopping mall for playing the song "Baby Shark" on loop to discourage homeless loitering, ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether a convicted murder’s intellectual disability is severe enough that he can’t be executed, directing a lower court to first ...

A judge on Monday heard arguments on a defense attorney’s request for the court to declare Nebraska’s death penalty statutes ...

The Justice Department has just released a scathing 96-page report accusing the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, GA of engaging in “cruel and unusual punishment” in the September 2022 death of a ...

The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a second attempt to execute an Idaho death row inmate would not violate his Eighth ...

A majority of justices rejected arguments over cruel and unusual punishment in June when ... technologies to enhance our news gathering, reporting, and presentation processes.

(Courtesy of the Idaho Supreme Court) The Idaho Supreme Court has ruled that a second attempt to execute an Idaho death row ...

Stripping away voting rights for some crimes is unconstitutional because it is cruel and unusual punishment, the appeal argues. A majority of justices rejected arguments over cruel and unusual ...

Stripping away voting rights for some crimes is unconstitutional because it is cruel and unusual punishment, the appeal argues. A majority of justices rejected arguments over cruel and unusual ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn Mississippi's Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes ...